This was clearly a botched execution that can only be accurately described as torture.

He’s in great pain from yesterday evening, physically, from all of the attempts to access his veins in his lower extremities and in his groin,

The IV personnel almost certainly punctured Doyle’s bladder, because he was urinating blood for the next day.

They may have hit his femoral artery as well, because suddenly there was a lot of blood gushing out. There were multiple puncture wounds on the ankles, calf, and right groin area, around a dozen.

Two UN human rights experts echoed Harcourt’s concerns warning, ‘attempts to insert needles into Mr Hamm’s veins to carry out the lethal injection would inflict pain and suffering that may amount to torture’.

UPDATE #DoyleHamm: Our work here is done for today, so we are heading back to NYC. Thank you Nika and Phoebe for extraordinary lawyering. It’s been a roller coaster this week. Doyle, and us all perhaps, are battered and broken, but alive. It reminds me of how fragile life is… pic.twitter.com/8Paw4lc1i3